Posts Tagged ‘Roy Jenkins’

In my Telegraph review of John Campbell’s wonderful new life of Roy Jenkins I did not have space to explore three essential points. The first concerns age. Jenkins was 42 years old when he first sto...
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The Chancellor is too close to the Prime Minister for Britain’s economic good It is not properly appreciated, except among Treasury officials and the Downing Street inner circle, that George Osborne...
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From Melissa Kite's unhappy dinner party to Iain Martin's terrifying alternative history, the reasons to vote No to AV are legion. But don't just listen to electoral reform's opponents – listen ...
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There is a case for reforming our electoral method. The current system gives 72 per cent of MPs safe seats. Since the only people who can terminate these MPs’ careers are their party Whips, their ra...
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OK, so what did we expect? A Labour Chancellor putting country before party when a general election is just six weeks away? Be serious. That's only happened once – when Roy Jenkins did the hon...
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Alistair Darling is seen as a pretty straight sort of guy at Westminster – he provokes none of the visceral hatred among Tories that Gordon Brown and Ed Balls manage so effortlessly. That's what...
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